Odd Metaphors

I haven't written a blog on the first of the month since December. However, today I decided that it was a fitting occasion. Why? Because so much has changed since I started these little "anniversary" speeches. So much.

In the past 6 months I have grown a lot. I have almost completed my first year of college. There alone I have learned a lot about my future career and about myself. I have grown stronger in faith. I have reached out and tried something new. I have been courageous. I have been honest. I have been fearless.

Not only all of this, but something that I thought was broken 6 months ago wasn't at all. Such amazing circumstances have risen from the ashes. Ashes from a fire that was lit for a long time. I thought it had burned out 6 months ago. And it did. But out of those ashes grew a tree. A tree, strong and friendly, and with arms always open to me. Things have changed, but they are so much better now.

So as I venture into something new, I will always have my tree. That amazing tree who has stuck around through all of my "moments" and never once turned away. In the future I pray that it will continue to grow along with me.

After all my odd metaphors, I am going to wrap up. Saying: I love ya bud. :D

Song of the Moment: God Gave Me You by Dave Barnes (I still remember the first time I heard this song on the radio. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7M7cJ4DydQ OR, if you can't get youtube, http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=91BF2MNU.)

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are wrong but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity
1 Timothy 4:12